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Re:Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] by icapybara on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:56AM (#27050666)
Might not be from MS, but automating MS Office document generation is a solved problem:

https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://www.python-excel.org/

https://python-pptx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Re:Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio] by krono on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @03:54PM (#27054853)
Yeah this is awesome community work, and I'm honestly thankful for MS having left these works alone.

An official solution would be nice though. These open source projects are popular enough to warrant one I'd say!

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